LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS OF SHELTER MANAGEMENT FACTORS
Abstract
A research program is reported in which several shelter exercises were conducted to investigate shelter management factors. The results of this program indicated that: (1) The most efficient operation of the shelter occurred when the manager was present from the beginning of the exercise. (2) The effectiveness of operation in the absence of the trained manager depended upon the attitude toward the exercise of the emergent shelter leader, and upon the way in which he employed the in-shelter guidance materials. (3) A management style in which approximately equal attention is given to both technical and non-technical problem areas was much more effective than styles in which more attention is given to one of these areas at the expense of the other. (4) complete darkness in a shelter was found to be tolerable for 24 hours by a group of volunteers from the research staff of A.I.R. This finding should be viewed, not as a base line, but rather as ceiling. That is, it is very unlikely that a complete 'shelter naive group' would behave nearly as calmly and assuredly as this group.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0612254
Entities
People
- John F. Hale
- Michael Rosenfeld
- Morris I. Berkowitz
Organizations
- American Institutes for Research